How to Use displace in a Sentence

displace

verb

• The war has displaced thousands of people.
• The closing of the factory has displaced many workers.
• The hurricane displaced most of the town's residents.
• Leclerc, the Rangers’ displaced closer, pitched a 1-2-3 ninth in a one-run game.
  — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 17 June 2023
• More than half a dozen shelters were opened in the state to house those displaced.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 26 Mar. 2023
• White petals displace pressure from the pores of my skin.
  — Alex Wagner, SPIN, 15 July 2022
• Since the start of the war, more than a million Palestinians have been displaced to the south.
  — Adam Rasgon, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2023
• The cats, who usually slept on the bed with me, had been displaced.
  — Kate Folk, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2020
• Students on both teams had lost homes or were displaced by the fires.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2025
• Four people were displaced and no longer have a home, Sanchez said.
  — Omar Rodríguez Ortiz, Miami Herald, 2 May 2024
• About 80% of Gaza's 2.3 million people have been displaced by the war.
  — Julia Frankel The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 10 Feb. 2024
• Can a place of love and sharing be displaced by loss and desire?
  — Kendra Nordin Beato, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 May 2020
• The vibrations travel down the strings to the top of the guitar, called the soundboard, and then displace the air inside the body.
  — New York Times, 28 Nov. 2020
• The union is seeking to ensure that the adoption of AI will not displace jobs.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 11 May 2024
• The blaze displaced a family who lived in the other half of the duplex.
  — Fox News, 20 Mar. 2023
• None of these high-rises will displace the city’s top two skyscrapers in terms of height.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Jan. 2021
• To move him now would displace somebody else who has earned that spot.
  — Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2022
• Most are displaced from their homes, and many need shelter.
  — Julia Frankel, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2025
• Around 6,000 people have died in the fighting, and more than a million have been displaced.
  — Sophie Neiman, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2024
• Those displaced by the fires would get first priority for the new homes.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2025
• The world watched our people forcibly displaced and did nothing.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• The couple is now displaced and living in their garage, which Reeves calls a cottage.
  — Emma Tucker, CNN, 9 Sep. 2024
• The Red Cross will be assisting people who were displaced by the fire, Dean said.
  — Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Feb. 2020
• But the News predicts that Neal’s move from tackle to guard is going to displace Ezeudu for good.
  — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 21 Aug. 2025
• Many of the people who were displaced moved down, went closer to Egypt, into Rafah.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 2 May 2024
• Such a strategy would displace the need for imports and reduce prices at the pump.
  — Dan Eberhart, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2021
• This might displace people who put up with the hazards of living near a landfill in the first place.
  — Dylan Taylor-Lehman, Popular Mechanics, 29 July 2021
• The fastest is to displace the shame onto others via acts of violence.
  — Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2020
• In 2020, a fire broke out at a refugee camp in the town of Moria, on the Greek island of Lesbos, displacing thousands.
  — The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
• By the latest count, the fighting resulted in at least 40 dead, including a high proportion of civilians, and displaced hundreds of thousands of more people from their homes.
  — Sebastien Roblin, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025